March 29, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Nine companies are set to demonstrate their products to a crowd of around 70 people this Thursday, March 31, at Cornstalks, a monthly gathering for entrepreneurs starting or running high-growth businesses. read more
March 29, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our… read more
March 29, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, holds an educational luncheon for entrepreneurs across Central Iowa. Called the "Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series," each luncheon features a speaker from the community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that's applicable to people working on building high-growth and scalable businesses. read more
March 23, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Austin (Photo by Janae Weinbrenner of Imijfoto) Leading up to South by Southwest Interactive I wrote a post about five startups from the Silicon Prairie that I thought had a chance to break out at the five-day conference – "Five Silicon Prairie startups that could break out at SXSW." With this post, I wasn't predicting any of the startups to have "the breakout app" of SXSW 2011, but I was suggesting each… read more
March 22, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
(Photo by Brad Folkens via Flickr) Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. read more
March 17, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Published every Tuesday (two days late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions… read more
March 16, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Des Moines The new feature Dwolla unveiled at its March 2 meetup — an event from which we streamed video — is now available in the latest version release in the iPhone App Store. Dwolla, a Des Moines-based cash transfer startup, went live today with Spots, a geolocation feature that enables users to find vendors that accept Dwolla. With Spots going live… read more
March 10, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Austin (Photo from Seth and Alexa Andrzejewski via Flickr.) South by Southwest Interactive isn't a conference. It isn't a summit. It isn't a networking event. And it certainly isn't a party. Nope, it's all of those things, and because of that, it makes it one of the best places for a startup to launch or market its product, whether that's in a large, public way or one-to-one. Last year's event brought in over 14,000 attendees to Austin… read more
March 9, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any… read more
March 8, 2011 by Christopher New
Des Moines One would think that with more than 100 programmers and tech entrepreneurs crammed into Cabaret in West Glen on Wednesday, March 2, all eyes would have been on the TVs showing Steve Jobs introducing the iPad 2. Instead, they were fixed on founder Ben Milne and the rest of the Dwolla team as the social payment service presented its newest… read more
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Winners will be announced live on stage at
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